Example sentences of "[adv] did [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 2 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
| 3 | He always did say those new-fangled machines were dangerous . ’ |
| 4 | She probably did remember that incident on the beach . |
| 5 | Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round . |
| 6 | He really did love this land . |
| 7 | ‘ But amazingly the process of setting up the co-op really did involve some of the men , and even the older boys . |
| 8 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 9 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 10 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 11 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 12 | Even a salad meal was a work of art for Leo , but he really did produce some marvellous meals from that old galley stove . |
| 13 | The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other . |
| 14 | There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady , one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman . |
| 15 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 16 | The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women . |
| 17 | Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk . |
| 18 | Why did have all his guitar out and everything ? |
| 19 | Several consequences of the war ultimately did lead some in British society towards fascism , however . |
| 20 | He never did answer that one . |
| 21 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 22 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 23 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 24 | I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything . |
| 25 | ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you . |
| 26 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 27 | We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one . |
| 28 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 29 | I never did lose any at all , but a couple did go missing one day and there was hell to pay . |
| 30 | I never did know much about Shakespeare . ’ |